The London Dungeon

1. The London Dungeon liesin the oldest part of London - in an old subterranean prison (that's what the word Dungeon stands for).
2. The museum takes its visitors on a journey through England's bloody history.
3. It demonstrates the brutal killings and tortures of the past.
4. You can experience for example how people died on the Gallow or during the Plague of 1665.
5. The Dungeon also shows scenes of Jack the Ripper or the beheading of Anne Boleyn, who was one of Henry VIII’s six wives.
6. The atmosphere at the Dungeon is really scary - nothing for the faint-hearted.
7. While you are walking around the Dungeon, watch out for creepy creatures - the Dungeon employs actors to give its visitors the fright of their lives.
8. The actors, dressed as monsters, ghosts or executers, are hiding in the dark corners of the Dungeon and then suddenly jump out and grab one of the visitors.
9. And the horror does not end at the exit of the exhibition.
10. Have you ever eaten a pizza with fingers and eyeballs on it?
11. Well, if you fancy that kind of food, you will love the meals at the Dungeon restaurant.
12. The museum wants to provoke, shock, educate and delight.
13. And this it does extremely well.
14. Since its opening in 1975, the Dungeon has attracted many visitors from all over the world.
15. Besides the regular opening hours, the Dungeon sometimes also opens at night.
16. If you have enough money and nerves of steel, you can book the Dungeon for parties, conferences or charity events at night.
17. And on 31 October, a frightfully good Halloween Party takes placeaction in the present that takes place regularly (Signalwort: every year) - Simple Present at the Dungeon every year.

Tenses Active and Passive

Hadrian's Wall

Fill the gaps with the correct tenses (active or passive voice).

1. In the year 122 AD, the Roman Emperor Hadrian visited his provinces in Britain.
2. On his visit, the Roman soldiers told him that Pictish tribes from Britain's north had attacked them.
3. So Hadrian gave the order to build a protective wall across one of the narrowest parts of the country.
4. After 6 years of hard work, the Wall was finished in 128.
5. It was 117 kilometres long and about 4 metres high.
6. The Wall was guarded by 15,000 Roman soldiers.
7. Every 8 kilometres there was a large fort in which up to 1,000 soldiers found shelter.
8. The soldiers watched over the frontier to the north and checked the people who wanted to enter or leave Roman Britain.
9. In order to pass through the Wall, people had to go to one of the small forts that served as gateways.
10. Those forts were called milecastles because the distance from one fort to another was one Roman mile (about 1,500 metres).
11. Between the milecastles there were two turrets from which the soldiers guarded the Wall.
12. If the Wall was attacked by enemies, the soldiers at the turrets ran to the nearest milecastle for help or lit a fire that could be seen by the soldiers in the milecastle.
13. In 383 Hadrian's Wall was abandoned .
14. Today Hadrian's Wall is the most popular tourist attraction in northern England.
15. In 1987, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.